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WHO DIES BEFORE DYING, DOES NOT DIE AFTER DYING
Consequently, the Great Cosmic Wisdom Chinnamasta whose representation is headless, is the Great Cosmic Wisdom who helps the sincere and devoted yogi to dissolve his or her mind, ...
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including all the ideas, attachments, habits, preconceived ideas into the Pure Divine Consciousness, helping him or her to transcend the mind and to merge with the supra-mental state (unmana) of the Divine Beatific Void.
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This is why we need not fear the loss of our head or of time, because sooner or later death takes us all through the great passage, regardless whether we want it or not.
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In fact, the only path to the spiritual awakening is the so-called “sacrifice of the mind”, implying the renunciation at the complicated mechanism of attachment and possession thoughts, of which the most persistent is the idea “I am the body”.
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In spiritual tradition this is symbolized by cutting off of the head, indicating separation of mind from body, or freedom of consciousness from material outfit of physical body.

On the other hand, it helps release of the potential subtle energies in practitioner’s being.

We can still ask ourselves: why does this concept need to be pictured in the terrible image of Chinnamasta when it could be explained and analyzed theoretically in less “shattering” conditions?
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The answer is that usually the visual images have greater and more dramatic impact on the subconscious determining faster and more forceful changes in one’s conceptions and actions, and achieving more effective breaks to the essential nature than a theoretical lecture.

Generally, the mind can accept points of view presented in a theoretical lecture & still avoid the reality of teachings, while the impact of image can't be avoided as easily, because the image “communicates” more intensely & more directly with spiritual heart of the being.

Suffering caused by sacrifice of ego represents a tough experience that most try to avoid, although they admit its spiritual importance.

Such an experience usually causes a complete re-orientation of energies towards deeply spiritual purposes & is seen akin to a “second birth”.

The terrible image of Chinnamasta is the most expressive way to suggest the fundamental transformation of human being, meaning the renunciation at the limited & ephemeral individuality of the ego, so as to be absorbed ecstatically in plenitude of God’s Universal Consciousness.

Iconographical representations of Chinnamasta show her holding her own head, which she cut herself in her right hand & drinking blood springing from open throat.

Her face does not indicate suffering, or pain, but it shows the beatific feeling of contentment and beatitude.

Significance of this aspect is of joy of transcending earthly state & of the suffering caused by its loss.

At the same time, Chinnamasta’s image represents the most energetic manifestation of the goddess Shakti eloquently indicating the power of transformation in full action.

As a result of this fact, the cut head does not appear as lifeless, but it is even more alive than previously. The consciousness is not limited at the dimensions and functions of the body, but it exists separately from it.
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Only when its freed from prison of body the consciousness can express itself, acquiring profound divine freedom & knowledge.

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Human beings experience a fraction of game of divine light in manifestation & it can be reflected & mostly distorted via limited capacities of sense perception.

Thus bodily & sensory pleasure offered is mostly lesser than pain & illness people have to face during a lifetime.

From this point of view, in which the yogi feels incarcerated in the prison of the senses and bodily desires, the Great Cosmic Wisdom Chinnamasta appears as the Saviour from the slavery of the gross matter.
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In the ecstasy of happiness she experiments all the time, Chinnamasta can drink all the blood that here expresses the joys & sufferings, pain & hopes of the earthly life, absorbing and sublimating the whole fragmented experience of time, with its disappointments and illusions.

Chinnamasta does this extraordinary process of absorption and transformation of all that is ultimately ephemeral and illusory without forgetting her essentially divine nature, which is the very immutable and eternal nature of the Supreme Self Atman.
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Although the form 8n which she appears to the mortals is terrible and frightening, Chinnamasta represents one of the beneficial and deeply transforming energies of the Macrocosm, and of the microcosm.
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